Fantasy

Thank you to everyone who responded! My request for fantasy books for = 4th, 5th and 6th yielded lots of results. Sorry it took me so long to = compile them. I ordered over 80 new books and all but about 6 of them = were checked out. I'll need to get a couple extra sets of the Percy = Jackson books!

I had a lot of great suggestions and compiled them into one list, = starring the most often suggested:=20

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Animorphs

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Artemis Fowl series (Eoin Colfer)

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finds out that he is the son of a Greek god, and is suddenly thrust into = a weird world where Greek mythology meets our modern world.=20
 * The Percy Jackson and the Olympians series by Rick Riordan. Percy =
 * 1) 1 The Lightening Thief


 * 1) 2 The Sea of Monsters


 * 1) 3 The Titan's Curse

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DuPrau's City of Ember, People of Sparks

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Wolf Brother by Michelle Paver The series is called Chronicles of Ancient Darkness I really liked this one. A boy loses his father to a demonic bear and = meets up with a wolf whom he realizes he can talk to. =20 =20

This one is good but could be a bit scary - lots of fighting with gnomes = and a tree that might eat you. The main character is Twig and he is = quite captivating.
 * The series is called The Edge Chronicles

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Wild a cool fantasy about 4 clans of cats that begin to clash with each other = after years of living together.
 * The Warriors Series by Erin Hunter the first book is called Into the =

Missing Magic by Emma Laybourn I love this one. Ned has no magic in a world where everyone else does. = When he goes to magic school things to learn magic, things just get = worse for him.

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The Enchanted Forest Chronicles by Patricia Wrede. A lovely "fractured = fairy tale" series (and it has dragons!)

The Dark is Rising series by Susan Cooper. An older series, but one with = classic good vs. evil and Arthurian themes. Also, there's a related = movie coming out this Christmas (which doesn't look anything like the = book, really, but you could probably do a tie-in).

The Pit Dragon series by Jane Yolen. In this case, dragons are an alien = life-form on a different planet, but it's a good sci-fi series.

Terry Pratchett's Tiffany Aching series (so far, titles include "The Wee = Free Men," "A Hat Full of Sky," and "Wintersmith"). The story of Tiffany = Aching, who wants to become a witch, and is learning the hard way; = rescuing her brother from the Queen of the Fairies, fighting a creature = who took over her body, and making sure that Winter goes away and Summer = comes again.

The Circle of Magic and The Circle Opens series by Tamora Pierce. The = story of four outcasts who learn to control their magic together and = become friends.

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The Young Wizards series by Diane Duane. Will probably appeal to kids = who liked Harry Potter, but it's got a much better moral basis (IMHO) = and more realistic characters. Might be a little "old," but content-wise = is appropriate for fifth and sixth grade

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Shadowlands, Rowan, Fairy Realm
 * Emily Rodda series - Dragons of Deltora, Deltora Quest,  =

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Charlie Bone series by Nimmo

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Into the Wild by Sarah Durst. Although the main character is older = (around 15 I think) the book would still be very appropriate for 5th = graders. Into the Wild is about a young girl named Julie who lives in = the real world. But her mom is Rapunzel and her grandma is the wicked = witch from the fairy tales. Her mom and most of the other fairy tale = characters had escaped from an entity known as "The Wild". But now the = wild is back and it wants to trap not only Rapunzel but Julie as well.

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Dragons: truth, myth and legend by David Passes Hatching Magic by Ann Downer Dragon Keeper by Carole Wilkinson Patricia Wrede's series=20 Lawrence Yep's dragon books

Stewart_ The Mysterious Benedict Society

Osborne_ Night of the new magicians

Ransom_ Time Spies series

Winterson_ Tanglewreck

Anderson_ Whales on stilts!

Pratchett_ Only you can save mankind

Kay_ The Divide

Lasky_ Guardians of Ga=92Hoole series

Mucci_ Bram Stoker: Dracula (graphic novel)

Poulsen_ The Book of Vampire (Salt & Pepper Chronicles, 4)

Greenburg_ Secrets of Dripping Fang series

Ruby_ The Chaos king

Eldest and Eragon--Paolini

Pendragon Series by MacHale


 * Redwall series by Jacques

The Keys to the Kingdom series starting with Mister Monday (by Garth = Nix)


 * Septimus Heap books by Angie Sage

Beyond the Deep Woods by Paul Stewart

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The Divide by Elizabeth Kay (also a series. I've read these and enjoyed = them. . .Magic, alternate universe, etc.)
 * Spiderwick Chronicles (series)

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Cornelia Funke: Dragon Rider, Inkspell, Inkheart

Coraline by Gaiman

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 * The Sisters Grimm. It's wonderful!  My girls love them!=20

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Dr. Ernest Drake's Dragonology handbook by Drake Erec Rex: The Dragon's Eye by Kingsley

Gregor the Overlander series (by Suzanne Collins

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The Bartemaeus Trilogy by Jonathan Stroud is wonderful

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Molly Moon books by Byng

Artemis Fowl books by Eoin Colfer

Gregor the Overlander books (there are 5) by Suzanne Collins

Some boys really love the Merlin books by T.A. Barron there are 5 of=20 them as well, Lost Years of Merlin, Wings of Merlin, etc

Gary Paulsen's Time Hackers is hysterical and great fun

Bruce Coville has quite a few good ones

Patrick Carmen's Books--there is the Atherton:=20 House of Power and the Land of Elyon series

Tom Swift has been revampted and actually the=20 boys tell me that they are quite enjoyable. Appleton is=20 still the author listed.

You might try Ender's Game and the rest of=20 that series from Orson Scott Card. I just finished it=20 myself and while it was a bit disturbing, I think many jr.=20 high boys could probably tolerate the violence more than=20 I. (I was feeling guilty over break about not reading any=20 SciFi.) Gail Carson Levine has a ton of fantasy out=20 there for various age groups. They are older, but Robin McKinley's "Hero and=20 the Crown" and the sequels were very popular back a few=20 years ago. I haven't pushed them here yet with our girls=20 but I may try that.

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The Keys of Time series starting with Mister Monday.

The Naming", "The Riddle", byAlice Croggen

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Here there be Dragons--James Owen

Kate McMullan's Dragonslayer Academy: Class Trip to the Cave of Doom

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Books by Tamora Pierce: She has several Quartets dealing with Magic

Circle of Magic is one quartet

The Circle opens is the follow up quartet

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a new series by Michael Scott called the adventures of the immortal=20 Nicholas Flamel: the Achemyst is book one

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Bruce Coville's alien series: My Teacher is an Alien

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The Sight (about wolves)

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Dr. Ernest Drake's Dragonology handbook by Drake Erec Rex: The Dragon's Eye by Kingsley

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Get Rich Quick Club by Dan Gutman Lloyd Alexander titles

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"Mistmantle" by M.I. Mc Allistar

Candy Shop War, Fablehaven by Brandon Mull

Leven Thumps series by Obert Skye